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With Lee in Virginia

CHAPTER XII
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Chloe had, before starting, put all the provisions in the house into it, and it contained three loaves, five or six pounds of bacon, a canister of tea, loaf-sugar, a small kettle, and two pint mugs, besides a number of odds and ends.

The kettle Dan had, by Chloe's direction, filled with water before leaving the river, and this was soon placed among the glowing embers.
"But you have brought no teapot, Chloe!" "Dar was not no room for it, Miss Lucy.

We can make tea bery well in de kettle." "So we can.

I forgot that.

We shall do capitally." The kettle was not long in boiling.


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